Room dimness
 

How can I make a room a little bit dim? Or to where I can change the dimness in the NPC Script? I am working on a thing and I forgot how to do it. It has been such a long time.

Change the backpal of the room.

And how would I come along to doing this?

Wait, got it. Nevermind, thanks.

backpals are bad =/ use effects (seteffect)

Lol! Backpals are good! Here's an idea:
if (playerchats&&strequals(#c,Setbackpal dusk1.png)) setbackpal dusk1.png;
and add it for each of the backpals you want. Or you can try:
if (playerchats&&strcontains(#c,setbackpal)) setbackpal #c; and set the string length to minus 11.
---Shifter

What do you have against backpals?

they are useless and outdated, they don't even color NPCs, all a backpal does is temporarely 'dye' the tile set, seteffect is much better and more efficent

*total agreeance*

I prefere seteffect:

NPC Code:

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seteffect red,green,blue,alpha

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Since you want to make the room darker lets use black.

NPC Code:

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seteffect 0,0,0,alpha

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The red, green, and blue have been replaced by zeros because using a RGB coloring system 0 red, 0 green, and 0 blue is black.
Now for the alpha, the alpha is the degree of intensity the color is put out.
0 being the most and 1 being the least.

This means you vary the level of darkness with decimals between them.

NPC Code:

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//#CLIENTSIDE

seteffect 0,0,0,1;

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This makes the level completely visible and it your starting point.
Now to make it half between dark and light you would change the alpha to 0.50.

NPC Code:

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seteffect 0,0,0,0.50

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Now just adjust the alpha to your specifications and enjoy.
This is //#CLIENTSIDE.

They are actually quite useful, since you don't want NPCs to change colour for a season system which uses setbackpal.
It's only outdated for day-night purposes.

You can use the command drawaslight to make the npcs show their true colour.

Yes, but you also don't want players to spontaneously turn a different colour just because it's a different season do you?

There is surely a command for that...

Stefan is just being greedy;)

well I am preety sure alot of that crap dosent work for me :) so backpals are tasty enough :)

i suggest using this:

NPC Code:

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if (playerenters) {

toweapons Backpal Changer;

}

if (isweapon) {

if (playerchats&&startswith(setbackpal,#c)) {

tokenize #c;

setbackpal #t(1);

}

}

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Should work. Haven't tried it because personally i don't like back pals because they cause lag :(

YES YOU CAN!

USING SETEFFECT DIMS EVERYTHING!!! (sprites, webgifs, and other things)

To exclude things from being emphazied by seteffect you use the wonderful command called 'drawaslight'!!!!

Backpals only dim the tileset.

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